Hello. I’m finishing my junior year of high school and narrowing down my college list. I’d be grateful if you guys could chance me on the following schools:
-Pitzer college
-University of Virginia
-George Washington university
-Hunter College
-Emerson College
-Santa Clara university
-Fordham University
-Georgetown university
-Bentley College
Also considering applying to these schools overseas:
-Australian national university
-sciences po (maybe Menton campus?)
-University of Geneva
-Yale-NUS Singapore
-University of Bern
-University of Cape town, South Africa
^what do you guys think of these schools? Should I be looking at these for junior year abroad instead?
Background:
-military family --> financial aid is important!!
-lived in 8 different places so far (3 of which were overseas)
-white, female
-part-french (fluent in French)
school info:
-Attend an IB, college prep school
-Full IB candidate (taking extra TOK class, CAS, and EE)
GPA, weighted: 4.92/5
-all courses are IB, some honors
-I will have two (maybe three) very strong, distinct college recs from teachers and college counselor
-selected by classmates for IB inquirer award
-Vice president of class
Extracurriculars:
sophomore year: debate team
-sophomore and junior year: member of MUN/global action activity
-senior year: will be president of MUN part of activity
-co-founder of third-culture kid club
-honor council, junior year-member. Senior year-chair board/head of honor council
-traveled with groups in school to various places, including Cuba, Mexico, and Myanmar (something to consider for writing portion of application? )
Sports:
freshman year: freshman touch rugby, played field hockey for freshman team while in 8th grade
sophomore year: JV soccer, JV tennis
Junior year: Varsity soccer (received varsity letter) , JV tennis
Senior year: Varsity soccer (predicted captain), JV or Varsity tennis
Outside of school:
-freshman year volunteer: leprosy home (in Singapore)
-volunteer at church
-hobby: crochet --> started my own crochet business
-babysitting (4yr old baby sister and neighborhood kids)
-tutor for French students in English
-other small/shot volunteer work here and there (hopefully more this Summer)
Practice Act (have not yet received ACT test scores back)
-22
new SAT (take one)
-1170
Reading and writing: 610, math: 560
Intended Major:
-International relations/foreign affairs
As you can tell I am a fairly poor test-taker, aiming to improve this Summer–> hoping for 1300 SAT
But despite this, what do you think my chances are at these schools?
Any other recommend areas for improvement?